The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-28

minutes after Nicodemus set It's 1ahgs
in its neck, and have known one,
again. to live more than day after
being struck I turned a little bantam
hen into Nicodemus' cage one day, I
and when he stuck her it made /
her so mad that she drove him /
into a corner bleeding like stuck pig. /
I was afraid this excited little fowl /
would kill him, and l took her out as |
soon as could. She keeled over an I
hour afterwards, and / supposed, OF /
course, she was done for, with all that
ratIesnake poison in her. but she lived
three days in stupOr and then gradu-
ally got well. That was the only IN
stance l ever knew of any thing re-
covering from the bite of a rattlesnake
without being treated for the poison
ing"
Except hogs. pop" interjected the
rattlesnake kings son once more.
.'Oh, yes, except hogs" replied the
/ father. "Lordl yes. Hogs don tmlnd
rattlesnakes any more than l mind
/ flies. had an old SOW Once-do you
mind old Jennie, BObP'-that WIS a
| regular terror to rattlesnakes She
could find the trail of one as surely as
/ a hound can find the deer's track and
she'd follow that trail till she came up
with the snake that made it, and then
the RATHER was her meat. She
didn't seem to care for any other kind
of snake, but she'd hunt rattlers from
the beginning of the season till the
end If 1 could have taught that pig
to retrieve she'd have been worth
good deal to me, for the number OF
snakes she'd have brought in during
the season would have been immense
but she wasn't on the retrieve. She
was hunting for her own accommoda-
ton, and ate every snake she caught
leaving only the head. used to find
so many rattlesnake heads on my tours
through the woods that it began to
dawn on me that my old sow was
; working dead against me by destroy
ing the snake crop, and l was finally
forced to kill her for my own protec-
ton.
Il have tried the effect of NicOde-
mus bite on many different animals
and birds, and with the exception OF
!. the bantam and n cur dog that 1 eX-
l perimented on, every one of them died,
1 some very soon after being bitten, and
r some not until three or four days hac
passed. I am sorry to say that NicO-
>. demus has a record of one man, too
on his list of victims. AS a genera
e thing. do not believe that the bite o
a rattlesnake will result fatally to hu
= man beings, but it did in this case
q The mans name was Flint, and it wa
u all his own fault that he was bitten
s. He was one of those Over-courageous
T. smart fellows. who think they can d
" any thing. He was at my place on
Il dav and cot to teasing the snake. Fi
= nallv he poked his finger through on
= of the meshes of the wire at Nicode
," mus When q rattlesnake strikes
Y never misses its mark if what it strike
y at is within reach. There is no move
Is ment in the world quicker than RAJ
as tlcsnake's strike. The snake struck {
Ut FHnts finger and, of course, hit it. l
two hours the man was dead, / hadn
drop Of whisky in the house, and b,
. l fore it was possible to send and g.
z" some Flint was dead.
es "A human being seems to be the on
Ut creature that suffers pain from a rattl
'O snakes bite. Every other living thin
TO that / ever saw bitten by rattlesnal
nm seemed to act as if it had been chlOr
ou formed. You can hardly see where
X snakes fangs enter the flesh and not
IS drop of blood flows from the wOun
IN Inflammation sets in at once; the brea
er beoins to come hard and short In az
We mails paralysis soon occurs in the biI
us parts. The blood leaves the eXtren
III ties and becomes thin. The heart of a
Ter animal that dies from rattlesnake pj
II son will always be found filed wi
IN blood in a thin fluid state instead of
.eg ing coagulated.
yer Il am a firm believer in whisky as
>lh antidote for rattlesnake poisoning.
GU have known seven different cases
my persons being bitten by rattlers whe
l l Il whisky was administered promptly a
inc literally, and not one was fatal.
ing sides the case of the man whom !
uIu snake killed 1 know of two othe
en- where the victims died. They We
both treated by doctors, but whis
l"' was not used in either case.
NlIl when any one tells you that
axe snakes age can be told by the numl
a of its rattles. don't believe it. 1
use caught snakes two feet long that b
.oH more rattles than others twice tn
Ine size. My pet rattlesnake is elev
=, years old, and he has fourteen as n
rattles as any snake fancier ever Sc
~ besides a beauty of button at the {
Oi of 'em. It's very rare case, t
ne where a rattlesnake gets to be m
rem than four feet long in this latitude.
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